Someone once told me that when I write for engineering magazines, I should write stories for the engineers, not for their engineering titles. The recognition that engineers are people first has always stuck with me. And it's as true today as when I first heard it a long time ago.

As engineers browsing the Internet, we may visit several engineering web sites, but as people we sometimes venture further into social networks like YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Ning, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other web-based forums. It's a little like when people working in one industry read magazines from other industries. Stepping outside the box called Title can often give us a different perspective on things and may even lead to technology transfer or other forms of exchanging ideas.

So, in the spirit of making Entertainment Engineering magazine available to more engineers in more places, we are trying a few new things in 2009.

It really started a few months ago, when Cirque du Soleil put us on their Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/KA. Cirque's link to our latest episode of EETV featuring their show KA got the magazine noticed by a wider audience. Engineers and other people who may not have an engineering degree found us there. So, we spent some time creating a Facebook page of our own, which you can see at the following link: EE on Facebook

Then, someone suggested we try Twitter. Now we have a growing number of people that follow us through Twitter/EEmagazine which expands our presence.

You may also want to check out http://blog.entertainmentengineering.com.

We'd like to know what you think of Entertainment Engineering. Join us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and use other social networking tools to encourage your colleagues and friends to review the magazine and provide their feedback to us.

Bruce Wiebusch